Plurrrr

Hello! I’ve been writing some Javascript this week, and as always when I start a new frontend project, I was faced with the question: should I use a build system?

I want to talk about what’s appealing to me about build systems, why I (usually) still don’t use them, and why I find it frustrating that some frontend Javascript libraries require that you use a build system.

I’m writing this because most of the writing I see about JS assumes that you’re using a build system, and it can be hard to navigate for folks like me who write very simple small Javascript projects that don’t require a build system.

It would be great if there was a way to provision a development environment that worked on all of my machines, even the ones which are a bit obsolete.

Is this true? Are the majority of cURL’s security vulnerabilities logic mistakes?

It’s easy to find out. The cURL authors have a great list of (known) cURL security vulnerabilities. If you skim it it becomes immediately obvious that no, cURL has plenty of memory safety bugs. Since there’s a nice list with great descriptions of each bug it seems like a nice opportunity to measure how many bugs Rust would have prevented.